Political Economy of Oil-Revenue Sharing in a Developing Country: Illustrations from Nigeria

Control over natural resource revenues is a contentious, politically divisive issue in most developing countries-especially for oil production. A typical policy response of the center in such cases has been to introduce revenue sharing arrangements. Such measures have generally not assuaged the aspi...

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